Earth Day is approaching, and, with it, an opportunity for people to reassess how their lifestyles are impacting the environment. Parents everywhere are starting to realize what a waste throwaway diapers are, and are interested in finding out more about reusable cloth diapers.
To support them in their quest, the Real Diaper Association [...]
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My oldest son, who is 3 1/2 years old, has taken 8 round trip plane trips in his short life, and probably 15 road trips. He’s FAR better traveled than I was at least until my mid-20s. His diapers (and his brother’s) have made all those trips with us, and thank goodness for [...]
When I told my father-in-law that RDA was working on compiling parents’ recommendations for nighttime cloth diapering, he looked perplexed, then asked “what, like get a good flashlight so you can see to change the diaper in the dark?” “Ummm… no”, I laughed. Actually we wanted to find out what parents do to make [...]
The 100% Reusable Cloth Diapers campaign has gotten off to a great start. In this first leg of the campaign, RDA members and other cloth diapering experts have been contributing their best advice to help other parents succeed with using cloth diapers at night.
We’ve received more than 50 responses. And what are the [...]
I recently attended a screening of The Story of Stuff followed by a talk by its creator, Annie Leonard, hosted by the San Diego Grantmakers coalition. She spoke to a room full of environmental funders about obstacles faced by the movement and she gave them suggestions about where they should put their money if [...]
With a new anthem, cloth diapering is set to storm the planet!
Review of RDA’s accomplishments in 2009 following the Board of Directors’ year-end meeting.
As an organization, Real Diaper Association supports the use of 100% reusable cloth diapers.
We are concerned about the waste created by disposable products, no matter whether that waste is sent to a landfill for 1000 years, flushed and disposed of through wastewater treatment, or composted and disposed of as yard waste. Reusable products do not [...]
I am excited to announce that the Real Diaper Association has a accredited a new leader from the Emerald Coast of Florida! Marissa Evans of Growing Green Bums has finished her leader training in Nonviolent Communication and is implementing her vision for advocating for and supporting parents and caregivers in using 100% reusable cloth diapers.
I’ll [...]
For our family, finding a daycare provider willing to use cloth diapers on our baby would be an absolute requirement. Any reasonable daycare provider would either accept our diapers without question or be willing to learn to use them even if they had never seen them before. If they were not reasonable on [...]